Ill-informed, Mission-Hostile Health Care Leadership... in the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services

Introduction - What Has Gone Wrong with the Leadership of Health Care OrganizationsA major focus ofHealth Care Renewal has been problems in leadership and governance of health care organizations, which we believe became major causes of health care dysfunction.  For example, we have discussed how leadership is oftenill-informed.  More and more people leading non-profit, for-profit and government health care organizations have had no training or experience in actually caring for patients, or in biomedical, clinical or public health research as professional managers largely supplanted health care professionals as leaders of health care organizations.  This is part of a societal wave of "managerialism. "  Most organizations are now run by suchgeneric managers, rather than people familiar with the particulars of the organizations ' work.  Obviously health care and health policy decisions made by ill-informed people are likely to have detrimental effects on patients ' and the public ' s health.Through 2016, our examples of ill-informed leadership in health care tended to be executives of hospital systems (e..g.,in 2014,here, on the mishandling of a patient with Ebola in a hospital system led by generic managers; and in 2013,here, on a luxurious hospital led by a former hotel executive).  Others were top executives of pharmaceutical corporations (e.g., in 2011,here, on previous Pfizer CEOs).We have also discussedmission-hostile management, which in many...
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